04-09-2009 01:22 PM - edited 03-15-2019 05:24 PM
I am looking for a solution to create a redundant path for rtp stream in our 3845 router with two GigabitEthernet interfaces.
Currently, both interfaces are plugged in to the different ports on a distribution switch and the second interface is configured as a backup interface for the first one. The idea was to send voice traffic to the backup interface when the main interface goes down. When it happened, we realized that our voice network is down b/c the backup interface did not have h323-gateway voip bind srcaddr command which can only be configured on one interface.
We want to keep the same IP address for obvious reasons.
I was considering creating a loopback interface and using ip unnumbered but it can't be used on Ethernet interfaces.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Yefim
04-09-2009 01:29 PM
You do not need unnumbered interface in order to bind voice packets to a loopback interface.
04-09-2009 01:38 PM
And it's good practice to bind the H323 to a loopback. You just need to make sure that the loopback address is advertised throughout the network, either via static routes, or by injecting that network into a dynamic routing protocol, like EIGRP or OSPF.
04-09-2009 01:39 PM
Thanks for the quick reply
If I move the IP address from the Ethernet interface to the loopback, how the router would know where to send rtp packets? Would the "backup interface" command work without an IP address on the interface?
04-09-2009 01:42 PM
Where to send is configured in dial-peer, it has nothing to do with interfaces.
You never use "backup-interface", just make a normal routing configuration.
04-09-2009 01:46 PM
No, you need to assign the loopback a new IP address with a /32 subnet mask. Leave the address on the ethernet as it is now, create a loopback interface, assign it a new IP address, and then bind the H323 to that address. Then you just need to make sure that every other device on the network knows a route to get to that loopback address.
04-10-2009 05:00 AM
That's what I am trying to avoid b/c it will require a lot of configuration changes on other devices.
04-10-2009 04:59 AM
That's the logical part of the routing decision. If I do not use backup interface, where would the router send a packet destined to the callmanager if the main ethernet is down?
04-10-2009 05:10 AM
On any other interface that has a router for CM.
04-10-2009 05:19 AM
And that means assigning a new IP address to the second Ethernet interface. I was trying to see if there was a way to avoid this.
04-10-2009 05:32 AM
There is, you can use IRB as follows:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk815/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094663.shtml
But having each interface with an own address makes a more robust design, because you rely on L3 routing and not spanning-tree.
04-10-2009 05:42 AM
INT1 172.16.32.2 /?
INT2 172.16.32.3 /?
Loopback 192.168.254.254 /32
You will point you Dial-peers at the loopback and it will use INT 1/2 to route the calls to CCM. You will have to re-configure on your Gateway but you'll better off in the long run.
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